Ten Things You Can Do to Sustain the Occupy Movement

Angela Davis has noted that one of the failures in our collective memory
of the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham is that we have forgotten
the names and activist leanings of the four girls—Carole, Denise, Addie
Mae and Cynthia—who are often merely reported to be four black girls who
died in the bombings. In fact, the burgeoning activists were preparing
to give a presentation about civil rights at the church’s annual Youth
Day program. Rosa Parks, before she refused to give up her seat on a bus
in Montgomery, had just finished a course
on nonviolent action.

To neglect the activist background and intention
of these women is to believe falsely that historic moments like the civil
rights movement “just happen.” In fact, years of organizing and strategizing
bring about their birth.Travis Holloway, a poet, political philosopher
and activist at Occupy Wall Street, believes this movement has the potential
to go beyond mere words and slogans (though, he writes in a recent piece,
these help), and like the civil rights movement, to effect real change.

Along with suggestions from a wide range of activists, here are “Ten Things”
to keep the Occupy movement going and build a foundation for long-term
change. Läs mer
> Nation 13 dec 2011

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